IROSO TOLDA
ÌROSÙN ÒGÚNDÁ · IROSO GUNDA
Prayer
IWEFE ELEBO SIWAYU ELEBO. IWERE LENI ELEBO, ILEWETA ELEBO, INO WOSARA OBA NU WOSARA OBO INU WOSARA EBÓ.
Súyere
«AYAMBAKO BELE, BELE KOIMA, KOIMA
SHANGÓ AYÁ BEKUN BELE KOIMA ALADE BEKUN EKUN
EKUANIYE OLE OLELÉ AYÁ BEKE»
Born in this sign
- 1.- THE JAMMING OF FIREARMS.
- 2.- AFITIVO, SUDDEN DEATH.
- 3.- THE HARVEST. THE GRAPE COLLECTION FOR WINEMAKING.
Description of the sign
THE SENSE OF TIME IS BORN, HERE THE CLOCKS STOPPED.
SPEAKS OF ENTANGLEMENTS IN BUSINESS OR TRADE MATTERS.
THE OWNER OF THIS IFÁ MUST HAVE FIVE SILVER COINS AND FIVE COWRIE SHELLS IN EACH HAND OF IFÁ.
HERE THE PERSON BECOMES ECSTATIC, WITH A BLANK MIND.
BY THIS SIGN IN OSODE, HE IS ORDERED TO BE SCARIFIED IN PALO AND TO HAVE A PRENDA.
IF THE PERSON HAS TO BE OPERATED ON, THAT IS RESOLVED THROUGH OGÚN.
MUST REINFORCE OGÚN SINCE A PIECE IS MISSING.
THE GODFATHER DOES NOT HAND OVER OGÚN TO HIS GODSON; HE IS THE ONE WHO MUST PICK IT UP FROM THE GROUND.
IN THIS IFÁ OLOKUN ASKED OGÚN FOR THE LERI WITH 7 DIFFERENT KINDS OF DRINKS. THE PRAYER OF THIS ODU IS THE ONE RECITED TO PERFORM THE DETACHMENT OF THE OPARALDO: «GUERELE ELEBO, ELEBO LINKENO ELEBO LOSIWAYU».
WHEN OLODUMARE CREATED THE WORLD HE LEFT OLOKUN UNDEFINED, WHICH IS WHY SOME SAY SHE IS A WOMAN AND OTHERS CLAIM HE IS A MAN, AND IN REALITY NO ONE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN WHAT OLOKUN IS.
ONE MUST BE CAREFUL WITH THE SEA BECAUSE ONE CAN DROWN, OR THEY CAN PUSH YOU INTO IT SO YOU DROWN.
HERE OLOKUN WANTED TO TAKE THE WHOLE EXTENT OF THE EARTH, AND OBATALÁ MADE HIM KNOW THAT THIS COULD NOT BE, BECAUSE WHERE WOULD HIS CHILDREN LIVE?
HERE THE DOG WAS KILLED FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE OF BEING A MEDDLER AND GOSSIP, SINCE IT WANTED TO MAKE OGÚN AND OLOFIN LOOK BAD. AYA IS GIVEN TO OGÚN AND ALSO TO SHANGO.
HERE IS WHERE THE WAR BETWEEN THE DOG AND THE RABBIT TOOK PLACE, AND BOTH LIVED IN OBATALÁ’S HOUSE.
SPEAKS OF A BETRAYAL BY A PERSON WHO GOES AROUND WITH YOU.
The description of this odù continues in the app, with 38 more sections.
Proverbs
- THERE IS ALWAYS AN EYE THAT SEES YOU.
- IN LIFE EVERYTHING ARRIVES IN ITS TIME, NOTHING RESULTS BEFORE ITS TIME.
- WHEN THE RAT SEES THE CANDLE, IT RUNS OUT.
- ONE STICK DOES NOT MAKE A FOREST.
- A DOG DEPENDS ON THE GOOD TEETH IN ITS MOUTH.
- A RAM DEPENDS ON ITS GOOD HORNS.
- WHOEVER PUSHES DOES NOT GET HIT.
- THE FATHER LOVES HIS CHILDREN SO MUCH THAT HE PULLS OUT THEIR EYES.
- THE DOG, SO LOYAL THAT IT BETRAYS ITS OWN FRIEND.
- THE THUMB PULLS BACK TO BREAK THE OBI.
Patakís of Iroso tolda
- THE DIVINATION THEY MADE FOR HIM BEFORE HE DESCENDED TO EARTH.
- DIVINED FOR THE WORLD (AIYE).
- DIVINED FOR OLUJATI; THE FATHER OF THE FISH.
- DIVINED FOR THE PINEAPPLE.
- INCANTATION FOR MARRIAGE.
- DIVINED SO THAT ORÚNMILA WOULD WIN THE HAND OF THE DAUGHTER OF GOD.
- THE WAR BETWEEN THE DOG AND THE RABBIT.
- HERE OLOKUN WANTED TO TAKE HOLD OF THE EARTH.
- THE BIRTH OF THE CHILD WHO BECAME KING.
- THE BIRTH OF THE GRAPEVINE.
- THE WAR BETWEEN OBATALA AND OLOKUN.
- BIRTH OF THE CANE LIQUOR.
- THE PATH OF THE AYA.
- THE RABBIT, THE DOG AND THE EARTHWORM.
- IGUI IROSUN.
Iroso tolda complete —with its entire description, as Ifá says, ewe, works and all the patakíes— is in the app Signos de Ifá, alongside the other 255 odù.
